Monday, January 31, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Exurb Loves... by Sofie Sausser Exurb Loves: Alison Van Pelt
Exurb Loves...
by Sofie Sausser
Exurb Loves: Alison Van Pelt
My friend Alison Van Pelt is an amazing artist who has a show in the gallery on the campus of Ventura College right now. In this exhibition she uses the artist Ed Ruscha as a theme and object of fantasy. The show is called “IF I WERE ED RUSCHA...” Alison Van Pelt explores identity, envy, power, self-importance, self-acceptance, humor, and dreams. She sketches a detailed portrait and paints it by hand in oils, then deconstructs it by using brushes to achieve a soft, blurred effect. The final results have a beautiful hologram feel.Van Pelt studied at UCLA, Art Center, Otis Parson and Florance Academy of Art. She has had solo shows at The Fresno Art Museum and The Dayton Art Institute, as well as in galleries throughout the North America and Europe, and is represented in significant public collections, such as the Armand Hammer Museum, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Jumex Foundation in Mexico City, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, NASA, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. She currently lives and works in Santa Monica, CA
What a treat to see her in Ventura!
Last Wednesday Alison spoke to some of the students about her experience, schooling and techniques. She gave her advice generously and was easy to talk to, the students couldn’t help but be sincerely inspired. If you have a chance, I highly recommend checking out the exhibit because pictures don’t do it justice.
VENTURA COLLEGE ART GALLERY EXHIBITION
ALISON VAN PELT ~ “IF I WERE ED RUSCHA”
January 20-February 10, 2011
Art Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, Noon-4 P.M.
Free Admission
ALISON VAN PELT PAINTINGS ~ “IF I WERE ED RUSCHA”
Exurb Loves...
by Sofie Sausser
Exurb Loves: Alison Van Pelt
My friend Alison Van Pelt is an amazing artist who has a show in the gallery on the campus of Ventura College right now. In this exhibition she uses the artist Ed Ruscha as a theme and object of fantasy. The show is called “IF I WERE ED RUSCHA...” Alison Van Pelt explores identity, envy, power, self-importance, self-acceptance, humor, and dreams. She sketches a detailed portrait and paints it by hand in oils, then deconstructs it by using brushes to achieve a soft, blurred effect. The final results have a beautiful hologram feel.Van Pelt studied at UCLA, Art Center, Otis Parson and Florance Academy of Art. She has had solo shows at The Fresno Art Museum and The Dayton Art Institute, as well as in galleries throughout the North America and Europe, and is represented in significant public collections, such as the Armand Hammer Museum, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Jumex Foundation in Mexico City, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, NASA, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. She currently lives and works in Santa Monica, CA
What a treat to see her in Ventura!
Last Wednesday Alison spoke to some of the students about her experience, schooling and techniques. She gave her advice generously and was easy to talk to, the students couldn’t help but be sincerely inspired. If you have a chance, I highly recommend checking out the exhibit because pictures don’t do it justice.
VENTURA COLLEGE ART GALLERY EXHIBITION
ALISON VAN PELT ~ “IF I WERE ED RUSCHA”
January 20-February 10, 2011
Art Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, Noon-4 P.M.
Free Admission
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Lecture Wed. Jan 26, 1:45pm
News
Ventura College
Art Gallery -- Alison Van Pelt "If I Were Ed Ruscha"
Contact: Kate Martin, Email: cmartin@vcccd.edu; Art Gallery Tel. 805-648-8974
VENTURA COLLEGE ART GALLERY EXHIBITION
ALISON VAN PELT ~ "IF I WERE ED RUSCHA"
January 20-February 10, 2011
Art Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, Noon-4 P.M.
Free Admission
Public Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 7-9 P.M.
In this exhibition – using the artist Ed Ruscha as a theme and object of fantasy – Alison Van Pelt explores identity, envy, power, self-importance, self-acceptance, humor, and dreams. First sketched on canvas, a detailed portrait is painted by hand in oils, then deconstructed using brushes to achieve a soft, blurred effect. The letters and backgrounds, painted in acrylic and gold and silver leaf, interrupt the fluid, blurry portrait in the foreground and set the picture planes apart.
Alison Van Pelt is a Los Angeles based painter who uses a blurring technique to combine motion painting and photo-realism. She begins with a drawing on the canvas, based primarily on found images, such as historical figures, artists, writers, political and spiritual leaders, pop-culture icons, Native Americans, animals, athletes, and obscure faces and torsos. She builds on her drawing with layers of oil paint, blending to create a textured blurring effect that moves horizontally and/or vertically on the canvas. Viewed closely, the details are deconstructed, breaking down a hyper-realistic painting to a distorted and sometimes abstract image. This technique produces either the streaking effect of motion across the canvas or, like a hologram, the image seems trapped under the paint. Her portraits generate an idolized feeling; they create a sense of longing for a vanishing illusion.
Alison Van Pelt studied art at UCLA, Art Center, Otis Parsons and the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Van Pelt has exhibited at galleries throughout Europe and America, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Dayton Art Institute, Fresno Art Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum, and is represented in significant permanent collections including LACMA, The Armand Hammer Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Jumex Foundation in Mexico City, Nasa, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, The Long Beach Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, St. Patrick's Cathedral, NY, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Currently, she has a solo-exhibition at Ochi Gallery in Sun Valley, Idaho and is also on view at The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University.
Ventura College
Art Gallery -- Alison Van Pelt "If I Were Ed Ruscha"
Contact: Kate Martin, Email: cmartin@vcccd.edu; Art Gallery Tel. 805-648-8974
VENTURA COLLEGE ART GALLERY EXHIBITION
ALISON VAN PELT ~ "IF I WERE ED RUSCHA"
January 20-February 10, 2011
Art Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, Noon-4 P.M.
Free Admission
Public Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 7-9 P.M.
In this exhibition – using the artist Ed Ruscha as a theme and object of fantasy – Alison Van Pelt explores identity, envy, power, self-importance, self-acceptance, humor, and dreams. First sketched on canvas, a detailed portrait is painted by hand in oils, then deconstructed using brushes to achieve a soft, blurred effect. The letters and backgrounds, painted in acrylic and gold and silver leaf, interrupt the fluid, blurry portrait in the foreground and set the picture planes apart.
Alison Van Pelt is a Los Angeles based painter who uses a blurring technique to combine motion painting and photo-realism. She begins with a drawing on the canvas, based primarily on found images, such as historical figures, artists, writers, political and spiritual leaders, pop-culture icons, Native Americans, animals, athletes, and obscure faces and torsos. She builds on her drawing with layers of oil paint, blending to create a textured blurring effect that moves horizontally and/or vertically on the canvas. Viewed closely, the details are deconstructed, breaking down a hyper-realistic painting to a distorted and sometimes abstract image. This technique produces either the streaking effect of motion across the canvas or, like a hologram, the image seems trapped under the paint. Her portraits generate an idolized feeling; they create a sense of longing for a vanishing illusion.
Alison Van Pelt studied art at UCLA, Art Center, Otis Parsons and the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Van Pelt has exhibited at galleries throughout Europe and America, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Dayton Art Institute, Fresno Art Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum, and is represented in significant permanent collections including LACMA, The Armand Hammer Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Jumex Foundation in Mexico City, Nasa, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, The Long Beach Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, St. Patrick's Cathedral, NY, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Currently, she has a solo-exhibition at Ochi Gallery in Sun Valley, Idaho and is also on view at The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University.
Alison Van Pelt, Pete Doherty, Rupert Murdoch
AVP to Guest Lecture Wed Jan 26, 1:45pm, VENTURA COLLEGE ART EXHIBITION ALISON VAN PELT ~ "IF I WERE ED RUSCHA"
News
Ventura College
Art Gallery -- Alison Van Pelt "If I Were Ed Ruscha"
Contact: Kate Martin, Email: cmartin@vcccd.edu; Art Gallery Tel. 805-648-8974
VENTURA COLLEGE ART GALLERY EXHIBITION
ALISON VAN PELT ~ "IF I WERE ED RUSCHA"
January 20-February 10, 2011
Art Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, Noon-4 P.M.
Free Admission
Public Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 7-9 P.M.
In this exhibition – using the artist Ed Ruscha as a theme and object of fantasy – Alison Van Pelt explores identity, envy, power, self-importance, self-acceptance, humor, and dreams. First sketched on canvas, a detailed portrait is painted by hand in oils, then deconstructed using brushes to achieve a soft, blurred effect. The letters and backgrounds, painted in acrylic and gold and silver leaf, interrupt the fluid, blurry portrait in the foreground and set the picture planes apart.
Alison Van Pelt is a Los Angeles based painter who uses a blurring technique to combine motion painting and photo-realism. She begins with a drawing on the canvas, based primarily on found images, such as historical figures, artists, writers, political and spiritual leaders, pop-culture icons, Native Americans, animals, athletes, and obscure faces and torsos. She builds on her drawing with layers of oil paint, blending to create a textured blurring effect that moves horizontally and/or vertically on the canvas. Viewed closely, the details are deconstructed, breaking down a hyper-realistic painting to a distorted and sometimes abstract image. This technique produces either the streaking effect of motion across the canvas or, like a hologram, the image seems trapped under the paint. Her portraits generate an idolized feeling; they create a sense of longing for a vanishing illusion.
Alison Van Pelt studied art at UCLA, Art Center, Otis Parsons and the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Van Pelt has exhibited at galleries throughout Europe and America, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Dayton Art Institute, Fresno Art Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum, and is represented in significant permanent collections including LACMA, The Armand Hammer Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Jumex Foundation in Mexico City, Nasa, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, The Long Beach Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, St. Patrick's Cathedral, NY, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Currently, she has a solo-exhibition at Ochi Gallery in Sun Valley, Idaho and is also on view at The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University.
Ventura College
Art Gallery -- Alison Van Pelt "If I Were Ed Ruscha"
Contact: Kate Martin, Email: cmartin@vcccd.edu; Art Gallery Tel. 805-648-8974
VENTURA COLLEGE ART GALLERY EXHIBITION
ALISON VAN PELT ~ "IF I WERE ED RUSCHA"
January 20-February 10, 2011
Art Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, Noon-4 P.M.
Free Admission
Public Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 7-9 P.M.
In this exhibition – using the artist Ed Ruscha as a theme and object of fantasy – Alison Van Pelt explores identity, envy, power, self-importance, self-acceptance, humor, and dreams. First sketched on canvas, a detailed portrait is painted by hand in oils, then deconstructed using brushes to achieve a soft, blurred effect. The letters and backgrounds, painted in acrylic and gold and silver leaf, interrupt the fluid, blurry portrait in the foreground and set the picture planes apart.
Alison Van Pelt is a Los Angeles based painter who uses a blurring technique to combine motion painting and photo-realism. She begins with a drawing on the canvas, based primarily on found images, such as historical figures, artists, writers, political and spiritual leaders, pop-culture icons, Native Americans, animals, athletes, and obscure faces and torsos. She builds on her drawing with layers of oil paint, blending to create a textured blurring effect that moves horizontally and/or vertically on the canvas. Viewed closely, the details are deconstructed, breaking down a hyper-realistic painting to a distorted and sometimes abstract image. This technique produces either the streaking effect of motion across the canvas or, like a hologram, the image seems trapped under the paint. Her portraits generate an idolized feeling; they create a sense of longing for a vanishing illusion.
Alison Van Pelt studied art at UCLA, Art Center, Otis Parsons and the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Van Pelt has exhibited at galleries throughout Europe and America, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Dayton Art Institute, Fresno Art Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum, and is represented in significant permanent collections including LACMA, The Armand Hammer Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Jumex Foundation in Mexico City, Nasa, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, The Long Beach Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, St. Patrick's Cathedral, NY, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Currently, she has a solo-exhibition at Ochi Gallery in Sun Valley, Idaho and is also on view at The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University.
Alison Van Pelt, Pete Doherty, Rupert Murdoch
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Guest lecture, Ventura College, Wed. Jan 26, 1:45pm
I will be giving a talk and answering questions for students and teachers in the Art Gallery at Ventura College, Wednesday Jan 26 at 1:45.
News Ventura College, Alison Van Pelt "If I Were Ed Ruscha..."
News
Ventura College
Art Gallery -- Alison Van Pelt "If I Were Ed Ruscha..."
Contact: Kate Martin, Email: cmartin@vcccd.edu; Art Gallery Tel. 805-648-8974
VENTURA COLLEGE ART GALLERY EXHIBITION
ALISON VAN PELT ~ "IF I WERE ED RUSCHA"
January 20-February 10, 2011
Art Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, Noon-4 P.M.
Free Admission
Public Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 7-9 P.M.
In this exhibition – using the artist Ed Ruscha as a theme and object of fantasy – Alison Van Pelt explores identity, envy, power, self-importance, self-acceptance, humor, and dreams. First sketched on canvas, a detailed portrait is painted by hand in oils, then deconstructed using brushes to achieve a soft, blurred effect. The letters and backgrounds, painted in acrylic and gold and silver leaf, interrupt the fluid, blurry portrait in the foreground and set the picture planes apart.
Alison Van Pelt is a Los Angeles based painter who uses a blurring technique to combine motion painting and photo-realism. She begins with a drawing on the canvas, based primarily on found images, such as historical figures, artists, writers, political and spiritual leaders, pop-culture icons, Native Americans, animals, athletes, and obscure faces and torsos. She builds on her drawing with layers of oil paint, blending to create a textured blurring effect that moves horizontally and/or vertically on the canvas. Viewed closely, the details are deconstructed, breaking down a hyper-realistic painting to a distorted and sometimes abstract image. This technique produces either the streaking effect of motion across the canvas or, like a hologram, the image seems trapped under the paint. Her portraits generate an idolized feeling; they create a sense of longing for a vanishing illusion.
Alison Van Pelt studied art at UCLA, Art Center, Otis Parsons and the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Van Pelt has exhibited at galleries throughout Europe and America, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Dayton Art Institute, Fresno Art Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum, and is represented in significant permanent collections including LACMA, The Armand Hammer Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Jumex Foundation in Mexico City, Nasa, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, The Long Beach Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, St. Patrick's Cathedral, NY, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Currently, she has a solo-exhibition at Ochi Gallery in Sun Valley, Idaho and is also on view at The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University.
Ventura College
Art Gallery -- Alison Van Pelt "If I Were Ed Ruscha..."
Contact: Kate Martin, Email: cmartin@vcccd.edu; Art Gallery Tel. 805-648-8974
VENTURA COLLEGE ART GALLERY EXHIBITION
ALISON VAN PELT ~ "IF I WERE ED RUSCHA"
January 20-February 10, 2011
Art Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, Noon-4 P.M.
Free Admission
Public Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 7-9 P.M.
In this exhibition – using the artist Ed Ruscha as a theme and object of fantasy – Alison Van Pelt explores identity, envy, power, self-importance, self-acceptance, humor, and dreams. First sketched on canvas, a detailed portrait is painted by hand in oils, then deconstructed using brushes to achieve a soft, blurred effect. The letters and backgrounds, painted in acrylic and gold and silver leaf, interrupt the fluid, blurry portrait in the foreground and set the picture planes apart.
Alison Van Pelt is a Los Angeles based painter who uses a blurring technique to combine motion painting and photo-realism. She begins with a drawing on the canvas, based primarily on found images, such as historical figures, artists, writers, political and spiritual leaders, pop-culture icons, Native Americans, animals, athletes, and obscure faces and torsos. She builds on her drawing with layers of oil paint, blending to create a textured blurring effect that moves horizontally and/or vertically on the canvas. Viewed closely, the details are deconstructed, breaking down a hyper-realistic painting to a distorted and sometimes abstract image. This technique produces either the streaking effect of motion across the canvas or, like a hologram, the image seems trapped under the paint. Her portraits generate an idolized feeling; they create a sense of longing for a vanishing illusion.
Alison Van Pelt studied art at UCLA, Art Center, Otis Parsons and the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Van Pelt has exhibited at galleries throughout Europe and America, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Dayton Art Institute, Fresno Art Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum, and is represented in significant permanent collections including LACMA, The Armand Hammer Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Jumex Foundation in Mexico City, Nasa, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, The Long Beach Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, St. Patrick's Cathedral, NY, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Currently, she has a solo-exhibition at Ochi Gallery in Sun Valley, Idaho and is also on view at The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University.
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